Philip Johnson Quotes
I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Being evil is easy.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.
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As a person, to inspire some young girls and give them something to look at and give them something to play for, I think is such a great position to be in. I'm glad that I can follow all of the great Korean players' footsteps.
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But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
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In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight. Perhaps because of this, the teachers created a curriculum that included a focus on African American literature and history year-round, not just in February.
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After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, - a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well.
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My dad likes to take the mickey out of me for saying everything is 'amazing.'
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I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired.
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The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.
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I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.
